Konica-Minolta 4750en crashed using CUPS 1.52 but not 1.50

Mark Blades m.c.blades at btinternet.com
Wed May 2 16:44:57 PDT 2012


> Mark Blades wrote:
>
> >> Mark Blades wrote:
> >>
> >> ....
> >>
> >> I forgot to mention that you probably need to copy the file
> >> /usr/bin/pdftops
> >> over to the new system if it does not already exist there.
> >>
> >> Helge
> >>
> > pdftops exists in /usr/bin  I think cups is using the version in
> > /etc/cups/filters as pdftops was failing until I changed file permissions
> > on the copied file to match the rest of the directory (755 I think).  Do I
> > still need to replace the copy in /usr/bin?
>
> No, I don't think so. The filter  /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops is in fact a
> wrapper program which calls either /usr/bin/pdftops or Ghostscript depending
> on how cups gets configured on build time (which has been done at Ubuntu's
> when building the rpm stuff).
> And the 1.5.0 file you provided has been created by the /usr/bin/pdftops
> utility, whereas the 1.5.2 file has been created by Ghostscript (version
> 9.05).
>
> Helge
>
OK, copied the fiel from /usr/bin on the old machine to the same location on the new machine.  Same problem with the printer hanging  but I also had to cancel the job from cups as well. This was only successful after powercycling the printer which shows in the log as an unable to cancel print job.

E [03/May/2012:00:23:44 +0100] [Job 25] Unable to cancel print job.
W [03/May/2012:00:23:48 +0100] failed to CreateProfile: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'KONICA-MINOLTA-magicolor-4750-Gray..' already exists
W [03/May/2012:00:23:48 +0100] failed to CreateProfile: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'KONICA-MINOLTA-magicolor-4750-CMYK..' already exists
W [03/May/2012:00:23:48 +0100] failed to CreateDevice: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:device id 'cups-KONICA-MINOLTA-magicolor-4750' already exists

any ideas?





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